When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
DAVE GROHLThrough Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
More Dave Grohl Quotes
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Be someone’s light when they are hopeless.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
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No one is you, and that is your power.
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Always have the highest bar for yourself.
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To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
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Mom, thanks for letting me drop out of high school. Haha!
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.
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There’s nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.
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I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.
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Develop that individuality by working as hard as you can at what you love.
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There’s nothing I’d rather do than make music. It’s the love of my life.
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I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.
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I’m a skinny, geeky, high school dropout – it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You’ll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team ’cause he’s on steroids and he’s gonna get fat.
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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
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Nothing’s going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I’d still love to make music.
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From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.
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Because you have things like ‘American Idol’ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
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When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.
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I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.
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Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it’s always going to be there.
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